I. M. Pei
Pyramid designer, architect
I.
M.
Pei (1917–2019) was a Chinese-American architect known for dramatic geometric forms in glass, steel, and concrete.
His most famous works include the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.
Pei's modernist style combined bold shapes with careful attention to light and site.
Paris art museum
- Rock and Roll Hall of FameMuseum honoring influential musicians
- Hong Kong skylineFamous Asian metropolis silhouette
- DohaQatar's governmental seat
- Washington DCAmerican seat of government
Transparent solid from sand
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- concreteSolid building mixture
- stoneSolid earth fragment
- graniteIgneous rock, quartz-rich
marble · limestone · aluminum · travertine · skylights · curtain wall · transparency · reflective
Influential modernist design school
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- International StyleFunctionalist architecture movement, 1920s
- abstractCondensed version of text
clean lines · open plan · brutalism · concrete · steel · light · space
Detailed technical drawing
- skyscraperVery tall urban building
- constructionProcess of building something
- façadeFalse outward appearance
- foundationUnderlying support structure
column · concrete · designer · elevation · fenestration · planning · renovation · restoration
Louvre
Paris art museum
- Rock and Roll Hall of FameMuseum honoring influential musicians
- Hong Kong skylineFamous Asian metropolis silhouette
- DohaQatar's governmental seat
glass
Transparent solid from sand
granite · marble · limestone · aluminum · travertine · skylights · curtain wall · transparency · reflective · polished
Bauhaus
Influential modernist design school
- minimalismAesthetic of reduction
- functionalismTheory emphasizing purposes and roles
- International StyleFunctionalist architecture movement, 1920s
abstract · clean lines · open plan · brutalism · concrete · steel · light · space
blueprint
Detailed technical drawing
- skyscraperVery tall urban building
- constructionProcess of building something
- façadeFalse outward appearance
foundation · column · concrete · designer · elevation · fenestration · planning · renovation · restoration · drafting
pyramid
Pointed polyhedral solid
- triangleThree-sided plane figure
- prismLight-splitting optical element
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
angle · plane · diagonal · grid · trapezoid · rhombus · octagon · hexagon · pentagon · parallelogram